Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has insisted that his character Jon Snow is dead, saying fans need to "get used to" that fact.
Jon Snow was tragically left for dead at the end of the show's last season and fans have been speculating about his fate ever since.
Harington has confirmed multiple times since the season ended that he was definitely dead and would not be returning for season six, but this was too much for fans to take and after a number of hints, there was a strong argument for his chances of survival.
In a recent interview however, Harington has broken the hearts of the fandom by saying that, despite their wishes, he is finished on Game of Thrones.
"People didn't want me to die, but he's dead. So there you go, everyone has to get used to it," he told Digital Spy.
"I haven't done Thrones in a while. I had quite a lot of time off last year. I've been taking it easy, and relaxing," he said.
On the outcry from fans after Snow's stabbing at the hands of his fellow Nights Watchmen, he said he was glad they were sad to see him go, "I was hoping that there would be an outcry of 'why?' and 'oh God, no, no' rather than 'thank God'. That was the right reaction as far as I was concerned."
"It's brilliant, the fact that people care about this TV show and what happens to the people they love or hate in it, is a special thing. I've got nothing to complain about, put it that way. If they care about it and I get asked about it a lot, it means that people hold it dear to their hearts and it's doing what it meant to," he added.
Meanwhile Harrington is set to return to the West End stage this spring for a new production of Doctor Faustus, which has been written by Colin Teevan who penned the RTÉ drama Rebellion and last year's Charlie.
He play the lead in Christopher Marlowe's famous 16th Century tragedy, about a man who sells his soul to the devil in return for magical powers.
"I have been away from the theatre for six years, so the combination of Colin Teevan’s inventive version of Marlowe’s extraordinary play in the hands of the visionary director Jamie Lloyd all felt like the perfect reason to come back," he said.
The play opens at London's Duke of York's Theatre in April.
